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I usually enjoy Monaco, but last nights race became a real pain as my sound once again deteriorated to a warbling static!!

Because I could not hear the engine revs I managed a world record for rpm in the Honda I think as the needle got close to 20k!!! on a couple of occasions lol.

Amazingly the engine survived and I started to close on Goran and Axel. Axel and Goran tried to block the road at Gazometier, but were only 50% succesful. A few laps later Goran slid wide at the top of the hill and I picked up another place.

Then we passed Tbot in a sick Ferrari at Tabac and I thought I might salvage a good result from this race. But it seemed that each time GPL called up a new sound..a skid...a clip on the barriers or another cars engine it simply continued to loop that sound on top of everything else that was already running!! So, the "noise" just got more and more garbled until I could hear nothing except NOISE!!As a result I could not hear if I was spinning up the rear wheels and slowly I cooked the rear tyres. Eventually I lost the rear end at Tabac and Goran regained his place.

Another few laps and decided that I could no longer suffer the noise and yet another spin decided that I quit.

I went away and slapped my PC about in an attempt to sort out the sound. I used that trusted method of a sharp slap to either side followed with a kick, but that did no good at all!!So, I went all through the BIOS and the hardware profile again to try and crack this problem. It seems to be worse when I am on a server, but that makes no sense at all!! so I will try it all again tonight.

have you checked the sound card hasn't moved in the slot .. all that slapping .

so try taking the card out and putting it back in the slot (with the pc turned off)

if that doesn't work you could try removing the card , rebooting without it , turn of pc and plug it in again . if that doesn't work you could remove , reboot and then put it in a different slot .. if that doesn't work put it back in the first slot and test again.

I bought and installed a soundcard simply BECAUSE I was having wierd stuff happening with my sounds. Things seem better initially when I get into GPL, but the longer I run in GPL the more distorted and hopeless the sound becomes. until it is just noise.

For years I have used the onboard sound without any problems, but over the last few months I have had increasing sessions where the engine note ( in any of the mods) just warbled. This problem is ONLY within GPL, iTunes functions perfectly with the new soundcard, so I am thinking the problem lies with some corrupted sound files withing GPL....but why does it always start off OK???

last night I checked that I had disabled the on board sound ( in the Bios) that I was using before and have double checked the latest drivers for the new soundcard. Tonight I will run GPL again for a long time to see if things have improved. The last step is to replace all my sound files, Nicky has been kind enough to give me a copy of his sound files to save me the hassle of finding and downloading all the various files.

I will keep you all posted because I am sure that you are all gripped by this story.....................maybe

ive always had a similar issue where it sounds fine but following a spin or any momentary lack of sound, the engine then sounds like a bee in a jam jar. i think i have narrowed it down to some trick auto regulation sofware that will autodectect the type of sound and automaticly puts the settings to classical, jazz or whatever and it cant deal with the whine of a 1.5 ltr climax, and i cant find the friggin off button

Are you running XP Clive? I had loads of sound issues with GPL when I was running XP (cured incidentally by disabling the onboard sound & installing an ancient Audigy soundcard). In XP I always had to have the sound hardware acceleration turned down a couple of notches (of course I'm sure you know that but perhaps double check in case installing the new soundcard & drivers has altered the values?) You might also find that using much older audio drivers rather than the latest ones sorts it out - I had to experiment with several drivers before I got one that worked perfectly. Mind you once I switched to Win 7 all these issues disappeared.

As to my race, I was pleased to be more competitive here though I think that was partially down to this track being better suited to the BT11. Qualified 3rd & after a clean start, was under solid pressure from Andreas the whole race. I had to push hard in the opening stint to open up a small gap to Andreas' Lotus & that also kept me reasonably in touch with the leading duo (for a change!) Ultimately the fact that only 3 of us finished meant I would've got a podium anyway, but having never dropped below 3rd during the race, I still felt I'd worked hard for this one

On a slightly different tack, several of the Inters runners are looking seriously quick these days. To my mind, what was supposed to be the bridge between Novices & Pros has turned into kind of a Pros-without-Hristo-&-Tris. I guess the intensity of a close championship has much to do with it, but with Pros getting 8 starters at the last 2 races, I'm not convinced that having 3 divisions for 65's is ideal.

On a slightly different tack, several of the Inters runners are looking seriously quick these days. To my mind, what was supposed to be the bridge between Novices & Pros has turned into kind of a Pros-without-Hristo-&-Tris. I guess the intensity of a close championship has much to do with it, but with Pros getting 8 starters at the last 2 races, I'm not convinced that having 3 divisions for 65's is ideal.

I agree Al.

But at times even the grid for the Inters has been a bit thin. 15 drivers signed up full time for Pros (not including Hristo who is a reserve) and the same number in the Inters. People have obviously found it difficult to turn up regularly this season.

OK thanks for all of the help guys. I seem to have cured my sound probs.

With ASUS Soundcard you must have the GX button checked for GPL Wink,,,thanks Axel

1. delete your GPL sound folder and replace with the fitting one out ya GPL backup.2. delete all your soundcard drivers via device manager , as well via ccleaner ,reboot and jump into BIOS to unable the onboard sound. Press F10 ( save changes and exit ) and once back in Windows reinstall Asus soundcard drivers and all Windows is asking for. Restart PC , go through the progs ClearProg and Ccleaner and then start GPL .

If you donâ€™t have a backup of your GPL sound folder on your hdd , you can try mine:......thanks Nicky although I just had to change your "skid" file lol my teeth almost fell out when yours played

Are you running XP Clive? I had loads of sound issues with GPL when I was running XP (cured incidentally by disabling the onboard sound & installing an ancient Audigy soundcard). In XP I always had to have the sound hardware acceleration turned down a couple of notches....... also helped thanks Al and yes I am running XP.